I have wanted to make clean ethical candles for my own home, prayer spaces, and gatherings for quite a while now and after almost ten years of failing to source candles like this on the market for my own spaces, I have done what I always do - I've made it myself. I finally had my own custom mold made (here in Europe) over the winter, so the time is now.

I have to be honest and say I never realized how much goes into making really good candles until I started the journey of making my own some years ago, and I've a deep found appreciation for the incredible skills required to make them well.

I always knew how I wanted these to look, burn and feel, the ingredients I wanted to work with, and that everything needed to be locally grown, clean burning, and organic. The journey of learning to make my own pillar candles, and the skills and art behind doing so, really showed me how many poorly made and unhealthy candles I've purchased in my life. The amount of wax wasted with badly made candles is insane, and most common and mass market candle making ingredients these days pollute your air with both toxins and smoke and reduce oxygen levels in your space...it is rather alarming really. Even those choosing to produce beeswax candles en mass and claim they are ethical, what cost is this to the bees? How zero imprint is it really? I invite you to do your own research on this and I'm sure that if you are someone that lives by candlelight like me, and/or works with them ritually, then you will know why cleaning this up and sourcing clean ethical candles is necessary.

I always demand ethics, sustainability, design aesthetics, energetic integrity, and practicality of everything that I do because there is zero space for nonsense when it comes to my prayer offerings. It needs to be 100% green in every way. Likewise, if I source services or ingredients outside of my own, it always needs to be 100% locally grown organic ingredients, local small business owners, and local fair trade suppliers. Hence sourcing this particular soy, and having my custom molds made here in Europe (instead of overseas which may have a cheaper price, but it has a bigger carbon footprint!). Supporting small business owners and local economy is a huge part of ensuring a healthy community, and I am mentioning this here as a way of perhaps seeding this for consideration in consumer minds.

To me, locally grown organic non gmo soy was the only option for a clean ethical sustainable candle. I went with this soy as a base rather than beeswax as I do not feel working with beeswax in this amount is sustainable, and likewise it is not vegan. I needed this one candle to be one that everyone can use. Anyone that knows me or is familiar with my work will know that I have huge love and appreciation for bees, they are incredible creatures. The bee husbands I know and work with do not remove much wax from the combs at all, so I don't expect this ethical source of wax from these bees (and their humans) will ever be enough for pillar candlemaking. Likewise, I will not purchase wax from a supplier as there is no way for me to know how the bees are treated. Bees are fire totems, so to use unethical beeswax for a candle is to make an unethical fire offering, and that is not how I work. There is no bypassing or whitewashing in anything I do.

In sharing these thought processes with you, I hope you can get an idea of how dedicated I am, I constantly examine the most sustainable and ethical ways to do what I do before offering it here, to you.

These Wild Rose Crystal Candles have been tested over and over again to ensure I got it absolutely right with the wick size, a clean burn, the cold throw and hot throw, the burn time measured, the ratio between wax and rose oil right, the ratio with wax and crystal powders right, and more. These truly are the candles I have always wanted, I'm glad I put in the time to manifesting them.